This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
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Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA’s JPL is designing mission concepts to survive the planet’s…
Galaxy NGC 3175. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al. NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia…
This 3D view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. From Feb. 12 to Feb.…
A tagged elephant seal basks on Kerguelen Island, a French territory in the Antarctic. Elephant seals are tagged as part of a French research program…
‘Switchbacks’ of faster solar wind emerge from coronal holes near the sun’s equator. Credit: Ronan Laker/GONG/NASA/HelioPy/PFSSPy The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer…
These images show the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu: Nightingale, Kingfisher, Osprey and Sandpiper. One of these four sites will ultimately be…
SpaceX launched its 19th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station at 12:29 p.m. EST December 5, 2019, from Space Launch Complex 40 at…
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on January 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1…
Galaxy NGC 5468. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Li et al. Some of the most dramatic events in the Universe occur when certain stars die…
Illustration of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched to space, soon becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to…
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 and dissipated over the next…
RELL Engineering Development Unit (left) pictured alongside RiTS flight unit that will fly to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX-19. Credit: NASA Sometimes robots need…
This image shows the Vikram Lander impact point and associated debris field. Green dots indicate spacecraft debris (confirmed or likely). Blue dots locate disturbed soil,…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have identified a new method that could…
Engineer Joel Steinkraus uses sunlight to test the solar arrays on one of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft. As the first CubeSat to enter…
An example of a banded iron formation (BIF). The Soudan Iron-Formation is a Neoarchean-aged BIF unit in the Vermilion Greenstone Belt of northeastern Minnesota, USA.…
View of cranberry bogs above Little Trout Lake in northern Wisconsin on Oct. 18, 2018, from NASA-USGS Landsat 8 data. Some of the cranberries have…
Some galaxies are closer friends than others. While many live their own separate, solitary lives, others stray a little too close to a near neighbor…
Mars Before and After Dust Storm: Side-by-side movies shows how the 2018 global dust storm enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager…